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Celebrating Café Life
It’s a Saturday in mid July around 12 noon. I’m sitting outside at a café. I’ve chosen an open-face sandwich on thick rye, piled with a…
6 min
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Villa Medoro, Contesa & Baldeschi-Balleani – Italian Wineries September 2014
Owned by the Della Loggia-Morricone family for three generations, the 100 hectare estate is located in the Teramane Hills of Abruzzo, overlooking the Adriatic Sea. In…
8 min
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Handley Cellars – California Winery of the Month September 2014
Two years of drought have created serious problems for California farmers. But the bears in Anderson Valley are not happy either. The food supply in their…
11 min
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Badia a Cultibuono, Casanova di Neri & Garfoli – Italian Wineries August 2014
Badia a Cultibuono or the Abbey of Good Harvest is located in Toscana and is at least a thousand years old, according to the Marchio Storico…
9 min
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Alder Springs Vineyard – California Winery of the Month August 2014
Twenty years ago, Stuart Bewley purchased a steep 6000 acre parcel in a remote area of Mendocino County near Laytonville. At the time, he could not…
14 min
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Do You Need a Coravin?
You may have heard about the Coravin, the latest gadget in the wine world that claims to preserve the remaining wine in a bottle after you’ve…
6 min
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Sardus Pater, Capichera & Alcesti – Italian Wineries July 2014
Sardus Pater or in English “Sardinian Father” refers to the ancient mythological hero-god of the Nuragic civilization from the Bronze age, 18th Century BCE to the…
9 min
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Pellegrini Wine Company – California Winery of the Month July 2014
Alexia Pellegrini is the fourth generation to work in a family wine business. But only recently has she been able to make a full commitment, in…
14 min
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The Purpose of Foil at the Top of a Wine Bottle
If you pay just minimal attention to the foil when opening a wine bottle, you could conclude that the covering is just decorative. If you looked…
6 min
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Sempre Vive – California Winery of the Month June 2014
Art is a familiar part of the wine business as anyone knows, who has perused bottle labels in a wine shop. But the art and wine…
10 min